{"id":68420,"date":"2005-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-division-of-agriculture-launch-fourth-year-of-good-agricultural-practices-program\/"},"modified":"2005-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-division-of-agriculture-launch-fourth-year-of-good-agricultural-practices-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/02\/uri-division-of-agriculture-launch-fourth-year-of-good-agricultural-practices-program\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站, Division of Agriculture launch fourth year of Good Agricultural Practices program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tFood safety program aimed at farmers of fruits, vegetables<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 9, 2005 &#8212; The 溏心vlog免费B站 Cooperative Extension and the R.I. Division of Agriculture, with the support of the R.I. Center for Agricultural Promotion and Education, are launching the fourth year of the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) program, a voluntary effort aimed at ensuring that the state\u2019s farmers produce safe fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFarmers interested in participating in the 2005 GAP certification program are encouraged to attend one of two educational meetings \u2013 Tuesday, March 1 from 9 a.m. to noon at the USDA office, 60 Quaker Lane, Warwick, or Wednesday, March 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Conanicut Grange, 6 West Rd., Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFarmers who have already become GAP certified have come to consider the program a good business practice since they know that consumers want clean food, according to 溏心vlog免费B站 food safety educator Lori Pivarnik.  They found that it takes little effort to follow a few common sense rules.  \u201cThat\u2019s what this program is designed to do \u2013 provide guidelines to grow, harvest, package, process and\/or transport fresh fruits and vegetables that will minimize any microbial food safety hazards that could occur,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe New England-wide program was launched in 2001 after 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Food Safety Education Program received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The purpose of the program is to ensure that growers incorporate basic food safety principles into farm management practices to reduce the risk of food-borne illness.  The primary issues that farmers must address to reduce microbial contamination are worker health and hygiene, water quality, proper use of manure and biosolids, produce handling and sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tUpon completion of training and a subsequent audit of their farm, the farm will become GAP-certified and receive resources to help market the farm as such.  Since 2002, 13 farms from throughout Rhode Island have been certified.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor more information, farmers should call Lori Pivarnik at 874-2972 or Martha Patnoad at 874-2960.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food safety program aimed at farmers of fruits, vegetables &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 9, 2005 &#8212; The 溏心vlog免费B站 Cooperative Extension and the R.I. Division of Agriculture, with the support of the R.I. Center for Agricultural Promotion and Education, are launching the fourth year of the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) program, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}